The powerful mining company, that explodes Peruvian gold deposit attacked by criminals, confirmed the murder of 13 workers that they had been kidnapped a week ago and were found dead this Sunday, which has caused great shock in Peru, where crime is booming.
In a statement, Powerful lamented the death of the 13 people who were “cruelly killed by criminals Allied to illegal mining. “
“We express ours solidarity with the families of the victims, sharing his pain and weighing for such terrible loss, “he added.
The bodies of the 13 workers were found Shots in the head and neck, After being handcuffed, and the remains were recovered by the National Police, According to images shared by the Epicenter TV portal and the Panorama Sunday program in its social network X accounts.
The mining company complained that, in total, 39 miners and workers have been killed by the criminal gangs that have taken control of Pataz, “converted into a territory without law, in which violence champions with impunity. “
The company made an urgent call to the government so that rethink your strategy to face crime and achieve the capture of criminals operating in Pataz.
However, he warned that it will not be possible to defeat crime if the police still do not enter interdict illegal mouths, where they are guided and from where the criminal gangs act.
He also denounced that the location of those points is fully identified and georeferenced.
He also indicated that he corresponds “greater responsibility” to the General Directorate of Mining Formalization of the Ministry of Energy and Mines, because “it still does not address the exclusion orders” presented by the company to withdraw from its concessions to the Informal and illegal miners that continue to operate without any restriction.
In the same vein, he told Congress for repeated extensions ofl Comprehensive Mining Formalization Registry (Reinfo) that have served as a “protective mantle” so that informal or illegal miners continue to develop their activities unpunished as part of a process that has proven to be “A total failure.”
“In front of this destructive spiral, It is imperative that the governmentprivate company and civil society They combine efforts in order to face it and defeat it before it is too late, “he said in the statement shared in social networks.
In the same province of Pataz, an ambush of alleged illegal miners against workers of the Araracoto Mining Camp, On Saturday, he left eight injured, including two police officers, who were evacuated by helicopter.
The National Police of Peru reported that workers and agents were ambushed in their vehicles when they entered the processing plant of the Minera Caravelí, located in the town center of Jucusbamba, in the Tayabamba district.
